6. Ondine Ninetails was pleasantly surprised that physically, the returning journey was much easier than expected.

Warm currents cradled her long journey and allowed a coasting gesture of wings to be ample effort to remain aloft.

This gave the dark dragon the luxury of concentration, thoughts and ponderings over the recent events.

It gave her time to examine the multitude of choices opened for the coming seasons. : Something new had opened in her mind. At first she felt distressed,thinking it may bee parasitic in nature, something other than or outside of her individualized self. But with the long lengths of time of observing and sensing, she enveloped the new and saw it as symbiotic. It allowed her to be the observer and the observed, the guide and the guided, the long line of genetic memory coming to fore .

It was a gnoing and an ease of purpose.

There was also a youthful excitement and impatience with this new found impulse.

What was seen as the symbiote warned and coaxed , cautioned and provoked to new inertias. The confusion it brought was both intoxicating and terrifying.

All these new feelings were being pondered and weighed.

The only decision Ondine made was to watch and see, for these new feelings could be the former delusions and illusions that never served well.

Ondine Ninetails grinned and thought that the only way to understand was to observe and see what poised response in her new home at Sylvhara. She wondered what wellings up will be useful.And most of all,….. how will this allow her to obtain the Hoon: the object of her dearest desire.

That time in the dungeon when she helped bring Dorian to his place of incarceration on the Wyre, she felt It’s presence, felt its call and immediately without logic or reason, lusted to possess it.

No cause or reason other than a fire in the blood.

Ondine Ninetails was deceived by the Queen when she(the Queen) told her that the blue stone she found beneath the Wyre was the Hoon.

Ondine ,in her blind lust, knelt before this false stone in ignorance and soon realized the Queen had deceived her. In that moment she lost her loyalty to the Queen and swore that the long life would be devoted to acquiring the Hoon. And the Queen’s lie would not be forgotten.

Ondine Ninetails remembered the words of her father,”All Dark is not evil and all Light is not good”.

With these thoughts Ondine fiercely pumped her massive wings, impatient to return and begin.

Ondine narrowed her eyes and focused on the object of her desire: the Hoon, the red stone that she now could see clearly in her mind’s eye.

And with this glowing and pulsing,Ondine speaks to the Hoon in the place of mindspeak, “You will be mine, my Love, You will be part of me and all that I become. However long it takes, know that I am present and approach closer with every breath.”